James Mellaart

✶November 14, 1925

†July 29, 2012

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About their life

James Mellaart FBA was a British and Dutch archaeologist and author who is noted for his discovery of the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. He was expelled from Turkey when he was suspected of involvement with the antiquities black market.

British archaeologist and forger (1925–2012)

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Biography from the article James Mellaart on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.